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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 13, 2018

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud party faction meeting in the Knesset on February 12, 2018 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Police set to issue indictment recommendations in Netanyahu cases

By Sue Surkes and Raoul Wootliff

PM will issue live statement after investigators release summary of evidence against him in two probes

Police Commissioner Roni Alsheikh (L) and Likud MK Yoav Kisch at the Knesset Internal Affairs Committee, February 5, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Likud-led Knesset panel summons police chief for hearing on PM probes

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara attend an event marking 50 years of Israeli settlements in Samaria, in Barkan, in the West Bank, on August 28, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Rare public spat between Netanyahu and Trump administration

White House: PM’s claim US and Israel discussing settlement annexation is false

By Eric Cortellessa

Netanyahu hurriedly backtracks after administration spokesman insists: ‘The US and Israel have never discussed such a proposal’

Palestinians blast Netanyahu claims of Israel-US talks on annexation

Israeli official, White House deny PM discussed settlement annexation with Trump

By Raphael Ahren and Jacob Magid

PM says he’s in talks with Trump administration over settlement annexation

Analysis

With annexation gaffe, Netanyahu blunders into first real crisis with Trump

Not since blaming the mufti for the Holocaust has Netanyahu made such easily refutable claims, and the rare misstep suggests he may be letting legal woes get the best of him

US President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands during a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House, on February 15, 2017, in Washington, DC. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office on February 4, 2018. (AFP Photo/Pool/Jim Hollander)

Opposition MKs slam Netanyahu for ‘lying’ about annexation talks with the US

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (3R) at the Jerusalem Conference, organized by the B'Sheva newspaper, on February 12, 2018. (courtesy)

Deputy FM says she was ‘speaking for Israel, not US’ in her annexation remarks

By Marissa Newman

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, second right, speaks at a press conference during a visit to the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona on February 13, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

After Syria clash, Liberman says Israel will ‘respond to any provocation’

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense minister also hails security cooperation with PA after Palestinian police protect IDF soldiers from Jenin mob

Syria threatens Israel with ‘more surprises’

By Stuart Winer and Judah Ari Gross

Lebanese president warns of ‘new wars’ over multiple disputes with Israel

IDF returns to Lebanon mentally ill man who crossed border

By Judah Ari Gross

Live updates

Netanyahu decries ‘slander’ as police recommend bribery indictment

By Tamar Pileggi

Prime minister denies wrongdoing, says police opened ‘unfounded’ investigations into him in effort to ‘topple him from power’

7:44 pm

Odeh: Netanyahu is 'dangerous,' will 'do anything' to stay in power
7:36 pm

Tourism minister says police recommendations an effort to stage coup
7:27 pm

Zionist Union MKs demand PM resign in the wake of indictment recommendation

Seventeen-year-old Palestinian Ahed Tamimi, right, arrives for the beginning of her trial in the Israeli military court at Ofer military prison in the West Bank village of Betunia, February 13, 2018. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

Trial of Palestinian teen who slapped IDF soldiers begins behind closed doors

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Judge at Ofer military court orders outsiders kept out of the proceedings for the benefit of Ahed Tamimi, who is being tried as a minor

A pipe bomb that a Palestinian man tried to smuggle into the Samaria Military Court on February 13, 2018. (Israel Police)

Palestinian caught with pipe bomb at West Bank military courthouse

By Stuart Winer

A panther chameleon opens the mouth in its enclosure in a zoo in Frankfurt, Germany, May 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Karma chameleon

Iran accuses West of using lizards for nuclear spying

By AFP and Michael Bachner

Adviser to Khamenei says aid collectors for Palestinians sought to deploy reptiles whose skin ‘attracted atomic waves’

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley returns to her seat after speaking to the UN General Assembly, Thursday, December 21, 2017, at United Nations headquarters. (AP/Mark Lennihan)

Despite threat, Trump budget still funds countries that opposed Jerusalem move

By Eric Cortellessa

President opts not to follow through on warning he would stop aiding those who voted to condemn recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital; moving embassy deemed a high priority

As Abbas asks Putin to sideline US, Trump urges new peace push

Diplomats back softened bill slashing PA funding over terror payouts

By Marissa Newman

Despite escalation on northern border, Tillerson has no plans to stop in Israel

By Eric Cortellessa

Illustrative photo: IDF troops operate in the Jenin area on February 3, 2018 in pursuit of Ahmad Jarrar, a suspect in the killing of Rabbi Raziel Shevach. (Israel Defense Forces)

Palestinians return rifle taken from soldiers during Jenin riot

IDF still investigating incident, in which two troops accidentally entered West Bank city, were beaten and bloodied by mob

Palestinians lambaste PA for helping IDF soldiers escape Jenin mob

By Khaled Abu Toameh

Army says misusing Waze led assaulted soldiers to Palestinian city

Hebrew media reviewA ‘lynching’ that wasn’t and a ‘liar’ who wasn’t called one

By Joshua Davidovich

Is Iran untouchable?

The Islamic Republic already does whatever it wants, so what is the nuclear deal’s ‘sunset’ clause going to unleash?

A rabbi’s duty to LGBTQ and mixed faith love

Judaism is about justice and must not remain ossified in a distant past

Progressive Orthodoxy has gone as far as it can go

With female clergy now a reality, it’s time to leave the battlefield and focus on creating religious vibrancy

A Palestinian state? What could possibly go wrong?

Here are the Israeli strategic targets that a hostile sovereign neighbor will be able to see through a gunsight

Rabbi Berel Lazar at his office in Moscow, February 5, 2018. (Ariel Schnabel)

Interview

As Chabad emissaries expelled from Russia, chief rabbi sees a friend in Putin

By Yaakov Schwartz

Bennett rejects 'spurious accusations'

Labor chief inveighs against ‘silent’ religious Zionist rabbis

By Marissa Newman

Speaking to community, Gabbay accuses moderate clergy of refusing to stand up to wrongdoing, says ‘soul-searching’ over Rabin murder ended when Orthodox retook ‘position of power’

Zionist Union party Avi Gabbay seen during a faction meeting at the Israeli parliament on February 12, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

More Headlines

Former Beatle Paul McCartney, during his concert in Tel Aviv on September 25, 2008. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90/File)

Paul McCartney awarded Wolf Prize, expected to come to Israel

By Michael Bachner

Senator Joe Lieberman speaking at 'The First Israeli Congress on Judaism and Democracy' on February 11, 2018. (Erez Uzir)

InterviewJoe Lieberman: ‘Unity is a precondition to national strength and liberty’

By Tracy Frydberg

View of homes in the Netiv Ha'avot outpost in the Etzion Bloc. September 2, 2016. (Gerhson Elinson/Flash90)

Israel okays temporary homes for residents of outpost slated to be razed

Israeli diplomat David Roet, during his visit to a UN conference in Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, in February 2018. (Foreign Ministry)

In first, Israeli diplomats attend UN conference in Malaysia

By Michael Bachner

Israel Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich, seen with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at a welcoming ceremony for his appointment, held at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on December 3, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Supreme Court rejects petition to silence police in Netanyahu probes

By Raoul Wootliff

A Toibot prototype installed inside toilet bowl. (Courtesy)

Israeli startup hopes to clean up with hands-free toilet brush

By Urvashi Verma

A car vandalized in the West Bank village of Jit, seen daubed with the Hebrew phrase 'Death to Arabs,' February 13, 2018. (Rabbis for Human Rights)

‘Death to Arabs’ graffitied on cars in Palestinian village

By Stuart Winer and Jacob Magid

Arielle Gold competes in run 3 of the women's snowboard halfpipe final event at the Phoenix Park during the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games on February 13, 2018. AFP/LOIC VENANCE)

Gold standardJewish snowboarder snags bronze in Pyeongchang Games

Behind the wheel of the CT6 (YouTube screenshot)

Self-driving cars take baby steps onto Israel’s roads

Disabled activists protesting in central Jerusalem on January 3, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset raises disability benefits as protesters push for bigger boost

Democratic National Committee Deputy Chair Rep. Keith Ellison (Democrat - Minnesota), right, talks to reporters as he leaves a House Democratic caucus meeting at the US Capitol, in Washington, DC, February 8, 2018. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

Senior Democrat Keith Ellison dined with Iranian president, Louis Farrakhan

By Stuart Winer

Omri Casspi #18 of the Golden State Warriors shoots the ball against the Denver Nuggets on November 4, 2017 at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado. (Courtesy Golden State Warriors; Photo by Garrett Ellwood/NBAE via Getty Images)

Omri Casspi scores season high in stellar NBA comeback

By ToI Staff and AP

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